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2010-07-28fsnotify: pass a file instead of an inode to open, read, and writeEric Paris
fanotify, the upcoming notification system actually needs a struct path so it can do opens in the context of listeners, and it needs a file so it can get f_flags from the original process. Close was the only operation that already was passing a struct file to the notification hook. This patch passes a file for access, modify, and open as well as they are easily available to these hooks. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: include data in should_send callsEric Paris
fanotify is going to need to look at file->private_data to know if an event should be sent or not. This passes the data (which might be a file, dentry, inode, or none) to the should_send function calls so fanotify can get that information when available Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: provide the data type to should_send_eventEric Paris
fanotify is only interested in event types which contain enough information to open the original file in the context of the fanotify listener. Since fanotify may not want to send events if that data isn't present we pass the data type to the should_send_event function call so fanotify can express its lack of interest. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: do not spam console without limitEric Paris
inotify was supposed to have a dmesg printk ratelimitor which would cause inotify to only emit one message per boot. The static bool was never set so it kept firing messages. This patch correctly limits warnings in multiple places. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: remove inotify in kernel interfaceEric Paris
nothing uses inotify in the kernel, drop it! Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: do not reuse watch descriptorsEric Paris
Prior to 2.6.31 inotify would not reuse watch descriptors until all of them had been used at least once. After the rewrite inotify would reuse watch descriptors. The selinux utility 'restorecond' was found to have problems when watch descriptors were reused. This patch reverts to the pre inotify rewrite behavior to not reuse watch descriptors. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: use kmem_cache_zalloc to simplify event initializationEric Paris
fsnotify event initialization is done entry by entry with almost everything set to either 0 or NULL. Use kmem_cache_zalloc and only initialize things that need non-zero initialization. Also means we don't have to change initialization entries based on the config options. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: kzalloc fsnotify groupsEric Paris
Use kzalloc for fsnotify_groups so that none of the fields can leak any information accidentally. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: use container_of instead of castingEric Paris
inotify_free_mark casts directly from an fsnotify_mark_entry to an inotify_inode_mark_entry. This works, but should use container_of instead for future proofing. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: use fsnotify_create_event to allocate the q_overflow eventEric Paris
Currently fsnotify defines a static fsnotify event which is sent when a group overflows its allotted queue length. This patch just allocates that event from the event cache rather than defining it statically. There is no known reason that the current implementation is wrong, but this makes sure the event is initialized and created like any other. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28Audit: audit watch init should not be before fsnotify initEric Paris
Audit watch init and fsnotify init both use subsys_initcall() but since the audit watch code is linked in before the fsnotify code the audit watch code would be using the fsnotify srcu struct before it was initialized. This patch fixes that problem by moving audit watch init to device_initcall() so it happens after fsnotify is ready. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by : Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
2010-07-28Audit: split audit watch KconfigEric Paris
Audit watch should depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL and should select FSNOTIFY. This splits the spagetti like mixing of audit_watch and audit_filter code so they can be configured seperately. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28Audit: audit watches depend on fsnotifyEric Paris
CONFIG_AUDIT builds audit_watches which depend on fsnotify. Make CONFIG_AUDIT select fsnotify. Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28audit: reimplement audit_trees using fsnotify rather than inotifyEric Paris
Simply switch audit_trees from using inotify to using fsnotify for it's inode pinning and disappearing act information. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: allow addition of duplicate fsnotify marksEric Paris
This patch allows a task to add a second fsnotify mark to an inode for the same group. This mark will be added to the end of the inode's list and this will never be found by the stand fsnotify_find_mark() function. This is useful if a user wants to add a new mark before removing the old one. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: duplicate fsnotify_mark_entry data between 2 marksEric Paris
Simple copy fsnotify information from one mark to another in preparation for the second mark to replace the first. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28audit: do not get and put just to free a watchEric Paris
deleting audit watch rules is not currently done under audit_filter_mutex. It was done this way because we could not hold the mutex during inotify manipulation. Since we are using fsnotify we don't need to do the extra get/put pair nor do we need the private list on which to store the parents while they are about to be freed. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28audit: redo audit watch locking and refcnt in light of fsnotifyEric Paris
fsnotify can handle mutexes to be held across all fsnotify operations since it deals strickly in spinlocks. This can simplify and reduce some of the audit_filter_mutex taking and dropping. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotifyEric Paris
Audit currently uses inotify to pin inodes in core and to detect when watched inodes are deleted or unmounted. This patch uses fsnotify instead of inotify. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28Audit: clean up the audit_watch splitEric Paris
No real changes, just cleanup to the audit_watch split patch which we done with minimal code changes for easy review. Now fix interfaces to make things work better. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: simplify the inotify idr handlingEric Paris
This patch moves all of the idr editing operations into their own idr functions. It makes it easier to prove locking correctness and to to understand the code flow. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-27Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: Pass the correct end of buffer to p9stat_read
2010-07-27gpio: fix spurious printk when freeing a gpioJon Povey
When freeing a gpio that has not been exported, gpio_unexport() prints a debug message when it should just fall through silently. Example spurious message: gpio_unexport: gpio0 status -22 Signed-off-by: Jon Povey <jon.povey@racelogic.co.uk> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: Gregory Bean <gbean@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-27edac: mpc85xx: fix coldplug/hotplug module autoloadingAnton Vorontsov
The MPC85xx EDAC driver is missing module device aliases, so the driver won't load automatically on boot. This patch fixes the issue by adding proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macros. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com> Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-27drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8581.c: fix setdatetimeRudolf Marek
Fix the logic while writing new date/time to the chip. The driver incorrectly wrote back register values to different registers and even with wrong mask. The patch adds clearing of the VLF register, which should be cleared if all date/time values are set. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <rudolf.marek@sysgo.com> Acked-by: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com> Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-27dynamic debug: move ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module()Jason Baron
The command echo "file ec.c +p" >/sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control causes an oops. Move the call to ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module(). In this way it should be called from all error paths. Currently, we are missing the remove if the module init routine fails. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.32+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-279p: Pass the correct end of buffer to p9stat_readLatchesar Ionkov
Pass the correct end of the buffer to p9stat_read. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-07-27Merge branch 'urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/perf * 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/perf: perf, powerpc: Use perf_sample_data_init() for the FSL code
2010-07-27Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/battery-2.6.35Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/battery-2.6.35: ds2782_battery: Rename get_current to fix build failure / name conflict
2010-07-27Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: s2io: fixing DBG_PRINT() macro ath9k: fix dma direction for map/unmap in ath_rx_tasklet net: dev_forward_skb should call nf_reset net sched: fix race in mirred device removal tun: avoid BUG, dump packet on GSO errors bonding: set device in RLB ARP packet handler wimax/i2400m: Add PID & VID for Intel WiMAX 6250 ipv6: Don't add routes to ipv6 disabled interfaces. net: Fix skb_copy_expand() handling of ->csum_start net: Fix corruption of skb csum field in pskb_expand_head() of net/core/skbuff.c macvtap: Limit packet queue length ixgbe/igb: catch invalid VF settings bnx2x: Advance a module version bnx2x: Protect statistics ramrod and sequence number bnx2x: Protect a SM state change wireless: use netif_rx_ni in ieee80211_send_layer2_update
2010-07-27perf, powerpc: Use perf_sample_data_init() for the FSL codePeter Zijlstra
We should use perf_sample_data_init() to initialize struct perf_sample_data. As explained in the description of commit dc1d628a ("perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization"), it is possible for userspace to get the kernel to dereference data.raw, so if it is not initialized, that means that unprivileged userspace can possibly oops the kernel. Using perf_sample_data_init makes sure it gets initialized to NULL. This conversion should have been included in commit dc1d628a, but it got missed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-07-26Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Do not try to disable hpet if it hasn't been initialized before x86, i8259: Only register sysdev if we have a real 8259 PIC
2010-07-26s2io: fixing DBG_PRINT() macroBreno Leitao
Patch 9e39f7c5b311a306977c5471f9e2ce4c456aa038 changed the DBG_PRINT() macro and the if clause was wrongly changed. It means that currently all the DBG_PRINT are being printed, flooding the kernel log buffer with things like: s2io: eth6: Next block at: c0000000b9c90000 s2io: eth6: In Neterion Tx routine Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <Sreenivasa.Honnur@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Limit Pstate transition latency check [CPUFREQ] Fix PCC driver error path [CPUFREQ] fix double freeing in error path of pcc-cpufreq [CPUFREQ] pcc driver should check for pcch method before calling _OSC [CPUFREQ] fix memory leak in cpufreq_add_dev [CPUFREQ] revert "[CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)"
2010-07-26Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: Set io_map_base for several PCI bridges lacking it MIPS: Alchemy: Define eth platform devices in the correct order MIPS: BCM63xx: Prevent second enet registration on BCM6338 MIPS: Quit using undefined behavior of ADDU in 64-bit atomic operations. MIPS: N32: Define getdents64. MIPS: MTX-1: Fix PCI on the MeshCube and related boards MIPS: Make init_vdso a subsys_initcall. MIPS: "Fix" useless 'init_vdso successfully' message. MIPS: PowerTV: Move register setup to before reading registers. SOUND: Au1000: Fix section mismatch VIDEO: Au1100fb: Fix section mismatch VIDEO: PMAGB-B: Fix section mismatch VIDEO: PMAG-BA: Fix section mismatch NET: declance: Fix section mismatches VIDEO. gbefb: Fix section mismatches.
2010-07-26drm/i915: make sure we shut off the panel in eDP configsJesse Barnes
Fix error from the last pull request. Making sure we shut the panel off is more correct and saves power. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-26Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2010-07-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: sysfs: allow creating symlinks from untagged to tagged directories sysfs: sysfs_delete_link handle symlinks from untagged to tagged directories. sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't remove
2010-07-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: musb: tusb6010: fix compile error with n8x0_defconfig USB: FTDI: Add support for the RT System VX-7 radio programming cable USB: add quirk for Broadcom BT dongle USB: usb-storage: fix initializations of urb fields USB: xhci: Set Mult field in endpoint context correctly. USB: sisusbvga: Fix for USB 3.0 USB: adds Artisman USB dongle to list of quirky devices USB: xhci: Set EP0 dequeue ptr after reset of configured device. USB: Fix USB3.0 Port Speed Downgrade after port reset USB: xHCI: Fix another bug in link TRB activation change. USB: option: Add support for AMOI Skypephone S2 USB: New PIDs for Qualcomm gobi 2000 (qcserial) USB: ftdi_sio: support for Signalyzer tools based on FTDI chips USB: s3c2410_udc: be aware of connected gadget driver USB: Expose vendor-specific ACM channel on Nokia 5230 USB: Add PID for Sierra 250U to drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c USB: option: add support for 1da5:4518
2010-07-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: serial: fix rs485 for atmel_serial on avr32
2010-07-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: drm/i915: add pipe A force quirks to i915 driver drm/i915: Fix panel fitting regression since 734b4157 drm/i915: fix deadlock in fb teardown drm/i915: don't free non-existent compressed llb on ILK+ agp/intel: Use the correct mask to detect i830 aperture size. drm/i915: disable FBC when more than one pipe is active drm/i915: Use the correct scanout alignment for fbcon. drm/i915: make sure eDP panel is turned on drm/i915: add PANEL_UNLOCK_REGS definition drm/i915: Make G4X-style PLL search more permissive drm/i915: Clear any existing dither mode prior to enabling spatial dithering drm/i915: handle shared framebuffers when flipping drm/i915: Explosion following OOM in do_execbuffer. gpu/drm/i915: Add a blacklist to omit modeset on LID open
2010-07-26[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Limit Pstate transition latency checkBorislav Petkov
The Pstate transition latency check was added for broken F10h BIOSen which wrongly contain a value of 0 for transition and bus master latency. Fam11h and later, however, (will) have similar transition latency so extend that behavior for them too. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-07-26[CPUFREQ] Fix PCC driver error pathMatthew Garrett
The PCC cpufreq driver unmaps the mailbox address range if any CPUs fail to initialise, but doesn't do anything to remove the registered CPUs from the cpufreq core resulting in failures further down the line. We're better off simply returning a failure - the cpufreq core will unregister us cleanly if we end up with no successfully registered CPUs. Tidy up the failure path and also add a sanity check to ensure that the firmware gives us a realistic frequency - the core deals badly with that being set to 0. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-07-26[CPUFREQ] fix double freeing in error path of pcc-cpufreqDaniel J Blueman
Prevent double freeing on error path. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-07-26[CPUFREQ] pcc driver should check for pcch method before calling _OSCMatthew Garrett
The pcc specification documents an _OSC method that's incompatible with the one defined as part of the ACPI spec. This shouldn't be a problem as both are supposed to be guarded with a UUID. Unfortunately approximately nobody (including HP, who wrote this spec) properly check the UUID on entry to the _OSC call. Right now this could result in surprising behaviour if the pcc driver performs an _OSC call on a machine that doesn't implement the pcc specification. Check whether the PCCH method exists first in order to reduce this probability. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-07-26[CPUFREQ] fix memory leak in cpufreq_add_devXiaotian Feng
We didn't free policy->related_cpus in error path err_unlock_policy. This is catched by following kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff88022a0b96d0 (size 512): comm "modprobe", pid 886, jiffies 4294689177 (age 780.694s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8111ebe5>] create_object+0x186/0x281 [<ffffffff814fad4f>] kmemleak_alloc+0x60/0xa7 [<ffffffff8111127a>] kmem_cache_alloc_node_notrace+0x120/0x142 [<ffffffff81262e4f>] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x2c/0xd7 [<ffffffff81262f0b>] alloc_cpumask_var+0x11/0x13 [<ffffffff81262f1c>] zalloc_cpumask_var+0xf/0x11 [<ffffffff8140fac0>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x11f/0x547 [<ffffffff81334bda>] sysdev_driver_register+0xc2/0x11d [<ffffffff8140e334>] cpufreq_register_driver+0xcb/0x1b8 [<ffffffffa032e040>] 0xffffffffa032e040 [<ffffffff810021ba>] do_one_initcall+0x5e/0x15c [<ffffffff81087f94>] sys_init_module+0xa6/0x1e6 [<ffffffff81009bc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-07-26[CPUFREQ] revert "[CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call ↵Andrej Gelenberg
(second call site)" 395913d0b1db37092ea3d9d69b832183b1dd84c5 ("[CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)") is not needed, because there is no rwsem lock in cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_conservative anymore. Lock should not be released until the work done. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594 Signed-off-by: Andrej Gelenberg <andrej.gelenberg@udo.edu> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-07-26sysfs: allow creating symlinks from untagged to tagged directoriesEric W. Biederman
Supporting symlinks from untagged to tagged directories is reasonable, and needed to support CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. So don't fail a prior allowing that case to work. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-07-26sysfs: sysfs_delete_link handle symlinks from untagged to tagged directories.Eric W. Biederman
This happens for network devices when SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-07-26sysfs: Don't allow the creation of symlinks we can't removeEric W. Biederman
Recently my tagged sysfs support revealed a flaw in the device core that a few rare drivers are running into such that we don't always put network devices in a class subdirectory named net/. Since we are not creating the class directory the network devices wind up in a non-tagged directory, but the symlinks to the network devices from /sys/class/net are in a tagged directory. All of which works until we go to remove or rename the symlink. When we remove or rename a symlink we look in the namespace of the target of the symlink. Since the target of the symlink is in a non-tagged sysfs directory we don't have a namespace to look in, and we fail to remove the symlink. Detect this problem up front and simply don't create symlinks we won't be able to remove later. This prevents symlink leakage and fails in a much clearer and more understandable way. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>